NUCLEOSYNTHESIS

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Meaning:

(astronomy) the cosmic synthesis of atoms more complex than the hydrogen atom

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("nucleosynthesis" is a kind of...):

synthesis (the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds))

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)